ATLANTA — Alliance Residential has acquired five acres within Carter’s Summerhill development to construct a 276-unit multifamily community. The master-planned project is located southeast of downtown Atlanta and just north of Georgia State Stadium, formerly known as Turner Field. Broadstone Summerhill will offer studio, one-and two-bedroom floor plans averaging 729 square feet. Communal amenities will include a swimming pool, clubroom, fitness center, flexible indoor /outdoor spaces and a top-floor sky lounge with views of the Downtown and Midtown skylines. The community is within a mile of the Atlanta BeltLine, Grant Park, Zoo Atlanta, The Georgia State Capitol and Georgia State University. Alliance Residential expects to break ground later this year and deliver the project in 2021.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Normandy Real Estate Partners has sold 950 L’Enfant Plaza, a 315,726-square-foot office building in Washington, D.C., for $104.6 million. The nine-story building was 86 percent leased at the time of sale. I.M. Pei designed the property, which is situated within the 2.5 million-square-foot L’Enfant Plaza mixed-use development. The asset overlooks the Southwest Waterfront and has access to the L’Enfant Metrorail Station and is two blocks from the Virginia Railway Express Station. Matt Nicholson, Jim Meisel, Andrew Weir, Stephen Conley and Dave Baker of JLL represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $82 million sale of Overton Row, a 323-unit apartment complex in Charlotte. The property offers studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a craft beer station, dog park, dog washing station, clubhouse, fitness center, business center, swimming pool, coffee bar and a yoga station. Overton Row is located at 1201 Central Ave., which is on the edge of the Plaza Midwood neighborhood and two miles east of downtown Charlotte. CampusWorks Development, Kaplan Residential and an affiliate of global investment firm The Carlyle Group sold the asset to Lindemann Multifamily Management. Marc Robinson, Jordan McCarley and Watson Bryant of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers in the transaction.
BETHESDA, MD. — Shareholders of Condor Hospitality Trust Inc., a lodging REIT based in Bethesda, have approved the proposed $318 million merger between Condor and NexPoint Hospitality Trust, a hotel REIT headquartered in Toronto. NexPoint and Condor expect the merger to close in the fourth quarter. As part of the deal, NexPoint will acquire Condor’s outstanding equity interests and operating partnership. “The transaction instantly expands [our] geographical footprint and balances NexPoint’s value-add portfolio with extended-stay hotels,” says Jim Dondero, CEO of NexPoint. “We believe the future for quality extended-stay and select-service hotels remains bright.” The shareholders of Condor (NYSE: CDOR) held a special meeting on Monday, Sept. 23 whereby 81.8 percent of the shares of Condor common stock voted in favor of adopting and approving the merger agreement, which NexPoint announced in late July. The merger allows NexPoint to enter several new markets, including Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi and South Carolina. The move will also expand the REIT’s presence in Florida and Texas. Condor Hospitality Trust currently owns 15 hotels in eight states totaling more than 1,900 rooms. The hotel flags in the company’s portfolio includes Hilton, Marriott and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). NexPoint Hospitality Trust began operations in …
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Northland Investment Corp. has acquired two multifamily communities in Charleston: Wharf 7 and The Standard. The 312-unit Wharf 7 is located on Daniel Island, 13 miles north of downtown Charleston. The community offers studio- through three-bedroom floor plans. Communal amenities include a saltwater pool, poolside TV lounges and grilling stations, hammock garden, fitness center with a separate yoga/spinning studio, community bikes and an event lawn with a terraced, outdoor amphitheater. The 280-unit The Standard is located on James Island, five miles southwest of downtown Charleston. The Standard offers communal amenities such as a saltwater pool with a tanning ledge and cabanas, picnic courtyard with grilling station and outdoor kitchen, public courtyard and a Lowcountry-inspired clubhouse. The seller and sales prices were not disclosed.
RALEIGH, N.C. — CBRE|Raleigh has arranged the sale of Beltline Center, a two-building, 513,787-square-foot industrial center in Raleigh. The buildings offer warehouse and flex space and were 62 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including UPS, Iron Mountain and Andrew & Hamilton Co. Inc. Beltline Center is located within an Opportunity Zone on 30.8 acres, two miles from downtown Raleigh. Ben Kilgore, Butch Miller, Ann-Stewart Patterson, Chandler Hawkins and Leslie Holmes of CBRE|Raleigh, along with the BPG Management team of Ken Pennington and Mike Green, represented the seller, Equus Capital Partners, in the transaction. New York City-based LM Real Estate Partners acquired the property.
GRANITE FALLS, N.C. — Flagship Healthcare Properties has delivered a 20,995-square-foot ambulatory surgery center within RiverCrest Medical Park in Granite Falls. Atlantic Union Bank provided construction financing for the project, which began in July 2018. The center was built for Prime Surgical Suites, an affiliate of Caldwell UNC Healthcare. Flagship Healthcare Trust Inc., Flagship’s private REIT, owns the building. Flagship will also provide property and asset management services for the facility.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Ready Capital Structured Finance has provided an $18 million acquisition and renovation loan for a 199-room hotel in West Palm Beach. The undisclosed borrower plans to upgrade the property and reflag it from a Holiday Inn hotel to a Crowne Plaza. The non-recourse, floating-rate loan features a 36-month term and two extension options. The seller was not disclosed.
COCOA, FLA. — Generation Income Properties Inc. (GIP) has acquired a Walgreens-occupied retail building in Cocoa for $4.5 million. The 15,000-square-foot building is located at 1106 Clearlake Road, 19 miles west of the Kennedy Space Center. American Momentum Bank provided acquisition financing. The seller was not disclosed.
At the mid-year mark, the greater Richmond area industrial market has continued to strengthen, closing with an overall occupancy rate of 91 percent in the categories being tracked (Class A, B, C vacant and investor-owned product with a minimum of 40,000 square feet total RBA). Class A occupancy increased slightly from 89 percent at the end of the first quarter to 91 percent at the end of the second quarter, and the majority of the Class A vacancy is attributed to a vacancy approaching 800,000 square feet in the former Ace Hardware facility in Prince George’s County. Ashley Capital purchased the property in early July for $21.7 million and will be offering the facility for lease. Class B occupancy has also experienced an increase to 92 percent, up from 89 percent at the end of the first quarter. CoStar Group reports overall industrial occupancy at 96 percent for product of all sizes, including investor-owned facilities, but excluding flex space (minimum 50 percent office). Richmond’s strategic Mid-Atlantic location along Interstate 95 provides access to 55 percent of the nation’s consumers within two days’ delivery by truck. In addition to being the northernmost right to work state on the Eastern Seaboard, Virginia …